Sign up today for Post Pro Picks, The Post's free, weekly NFL pick 'em game, where you can win great prizes, form groups to play against your friends, see how you fare against our experts or just play for fun. Register at http://washingtonpost.com/pro-picks

Rogers, Cartwright on Redskins' Struggles

Carlos Rogers, from the Redskins' open locker room:

"It starts not only with players and coaches, it starts with the ownership. They bring everybody in and they've got last say-so of everything, so that's where it starts, I guess." (via @RickMaese on Twitter).

Rock Cartwright:

"We look better than everybody on paper. But when it's time to do it, apparently we're not doing it. They are. We're not. We're going to get this thing turned around. I promise you that. I promise you we're going to get it turned around." (via @RickMaese)

5:16:45 pm Redskins WR Santonio Moss on the offense gaining just 198 yards today, "The anger inside, it's so frustrating. I don;t want to say the wrong thing so I'd rather not say anything at all. I don't know. I don't have a clue... To me it's like Groundhog Day, every week it's like the same thing."

There are anywhere from 6 to 10 solid QB prospects in this draft.....there are 2 elite tackles.....hopefully but certainly unlikely that if Cerrato is still making decisions we'll go Tackle round one qb round 2.

Posted by: zjfr2 | October 12, 2009 11:47 AM |

I hear the dropoff is pretty severe after you get past Bradford. You build your team around the QB, not the OT. The Giants and Falcons drafted an elite QB and then built their OL. The Browns and Phins drafted an elite OT and have mediocre QBs and are struggling. Even with the nosedive the Skins are in there is no guarantee they would get Bradford because they would be competing with Oak and the Rams, both of whom are in bad need of a QB.

*On Wednesday, unbeknownst to media members, who aren't allowed to watch team drills during the regular season, Mike Williams - who had never played guard and who hadn't played at all since 2005 - became Washington's third starter at right guard in four weeks.

pabrian2003 - Exhibit A to your statement - Belechik put in Randy Moss at the end of the 1st half knowing that Denver was going to throw a hail mary - and sure enought Orton did, and Moss got the INT (which was, his first "reception" of the game).

"Samuels was replaced by D'Anthony Batiste, who hadn't played since December 2007 and had never played tackle. But that's where he played because Rinehart was inactive. Defensive tackle Cornelius Griffin suited up even though he knew his sprained left elbow would keep him from playing.

If Rinehart, whose apparent sprained shoulder was never listed on the injury report during the week, had suited up, he could have gone to guard. Williams would have played his familiar right tackle, moving Stephon Heyer to the left side, where he had filled in for Samuels in the past. The makeshift line allowed five sacks and helped produced just 3.1 yards a carry against a defense that was last in the NFL against the run.
"

=============================================

So, if this is true, it's completly the coaches fault. If Griffen wasn't going to play anyway, and MW was starting at RG. Why wouldn't the skins think about what if someone on the line goes down?

Daniel Snyder is willing to pay more for whoever we want or need to play or coach, this is a good thing. But because there is no strong leadership in management that can tell him sometimes tell him "no", it appears that we are headed back down the Steve Spurrier route. The Skins desperatly need a strong "football guy" GM to replace Vinny.

Snyder really needs to consider hiring a tough guy like Bill Cowher to come in here and whip the skins into shape, and most likely someone of his stature will not return without a big paycheck, no problem there, and full control over the roster, well then Snyder needs to show he has learned from past mistakes like with Schottenheimer and yield and let someone come in here who knows what they are doing to run the show. And then Snyder can do what he does best, sign big pay checks to whomever the new GM decides the Skins need to pay.

4th, I am in complete agreement about the bungling of active/inactive and the right switch to oline once samuels went down. Also why was will montgomery not thrown in at Guard to slide Heyer/BMW to the tackles?

...Why wouldn't the skins think about what if someone on the line goes down?

Posted by: 4thFloor | October 12, 2009 12:10 PM

Exactly 4th. Because of the organizational philosophy of "WR-TE-WR," they were stuck with some guy named D'Anthony Batiste as LT, and Mike Williams as RG. Not to mention a starting RT who stinks.
But who needs a solid OLine, right?

...Why wouldn't the skins think about what if someone on the line goes down?

Because they have almost no options.

We all know that O-lines on teams nowadays get banged up. That's where those 3rd and 4th and 5th round picks come in handy. Use them to pick up prospects that, while they aren't topflight lineman, are capable of playing in a backup/spot role capacity.

The Skins haven't had those 3-4-5 round picks consistently over the years. So they have to rely on rejects that no one wants.

has anyone actual seen los in a game. he might as well be invisible opposing qb's just can't seem to find the guy. as bad as he is at his job you would think they would be picking on him all game long but it's as if los and who ever he might be covering just vanish. why would you as a quarterback in the nfl target a corner with such god awful hands? especially when the other option is throwing at deangelo "sticky hands" hall?